When people use the adjective `Kafkaesque`, it is "The Trial" they have in mind – the nightmarish world of Joseph K., where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and any help there may be comes from unexpected sources. K. is never told what he is on trial for, and when he says he is innocent, he is immediately asked `innocent of what?` Is he perhaps on trial for his innocence? Could he have freed himself from the proceedings by confessing his guilt as a human being? Has the trial been set up because he is incapable of admitting his guilt, and hence his humanity? "The Tria"l is a chilling and at the same time blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very end, a constant, relentless atmosphere of disorientation and...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-097-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley is a long way from Hollywood. And that’s exactly how Cilla McGowan wants it. Cilla, a former child star who has found more satisfying work as a restorer of old houses, has come to her grandmother’s farmhouse, tools at her side, to rescue it from ruin. Sadly, no one was able to save her grandmother, the legendary Janet Hardy. An actress with a tumultuous life, Janet entertained glamorous guests and engaged in decadent affairs—but died of an overdose in this very house more than thirty years earlier. To this day, Janet haunts Cilla’s dreams. And during waking hours, Cilla is haunted by her melodramatic, five-times-married mother, who carried on in the public spotlight and never gave her a chance at a...
ISBN: 978-0-515-14636-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Finie l`interviouve à la papa, le tête-à-tête où la star vous confiait sa version du tournage! A Hollywood, aujourd`hui, le junket et règne en maître. Le chronomètre part et le discours défile, prémâché par mille attachées de presse, épuisé par mille journalistes avant vous. On toque à la porte: au suivant! Cinéphile avertie, Juliette n`en croit pas ses oreilles lorsque son boss lui propose un job de correspondante à Los Angeles. Nantie de la confiance de son magazine et des rêves plein la bobine, la voilà emportée dans le tourbillon impersonnel de la ville-cinéma. Comment survivre à Hollywood quand l`anonymat vous suit...
ISBN: 978-2-266-18655-1
Издательство:
Pocket
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Tricia Guild is known for her bold and original fabric and wallpaper collections and her extraordinary ability to use colour and pattern in decoration. She is inspired by fabrics, techniques, motifs and designs from all over the world and from every period of history - brocades and damasks from the Far East; the rich history of botanical illustration and flower painting; checks, plaids and stripes from northern Europe; vibrant ethnic prints from India and Central America; painterly designs from Chinese and European porcelain; the bold abstracts and geometric patterns of contemporary painters. Today, there has probably never been more popular interest in pattern. After what seems like decades of white walls, pattern on wallpaper and...
ISBN: 978-1-84400-326-6
Издательство:
Quadrille Publishing
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Little by little, we all learned something in some way… And like Onegin, I was passing my life way. But by old age, all the experience appeared, Perhaps, someone would like to read it or to hear. Now, my dear reader, my work became the tale. I hope, it’s not moral, one would say. As evil and envy (unfortunately) are often near us… But you can try avoiding their fuss.
ISBN: 9785906957665
Издательство:
Clever
Дата выхода: январь 2019
A practical workbook full of simple but effective exercises to complete which help learn 20 of the most common tricky words, including `the`, in`to`, `I` and `said`. Little ones will love to meet Tricky Witch, as she introduces and explains the tricky words, and to play the fun games with pull-out interactive learning cards. The Pages are wipe clean, so that all the activities can be wiped away and repeated.
ISBN: 978-1-84915-735-3
Издательство:
Priddy Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Ensconced in a lovely tropical villa on idyllic Triggerfish Lane, Jim Davenport anticipates the good life to come. But this isn`t living - it`s Florida and the neighborhood is not quite what it seems. It`s got overly aggressive Little League parents, drug-free Rastafarians, homicidal hookers, unnatural sex and casual violence. Oh, yes, and there`s a psychopathic serial killer-cum-Sunshine-State folklorist named Serge A. Storms living directly across the street. So it`s only a matter of time before Jim up and actually kills somebody ...
A class of young South African schoolchildren go on a trip to a safari park. They have been looking forward to it and they can hardly contain their enthusiasm, so their teacher has to be very patient! They have a lot of laughs and a lot of fun, but they also manage to learn something!
ISBN: 978885300-886-2
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Trip durch D-A-CH is a cultural studies book which embraces all the German-speaking world – from Germany to Austria and the Swiss Cantons and including Lichtenstein and the South Tirol. The book is aimed at students at A2 level of German.
ISBN: 978885300-392-8
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"Triple" is the riveting story of the most successful espionage coup - and best-kept secret - of this century. It is 1968. Israeli intelligence has learned that Egypt, with Soviet help, will develop atomic bombs within months - an untimely end for the young nation unless a source of uranium for Israeli bombs can be had in complete secrecy. Impossible, of course, unless someone as improbable as the plan can be found to steal Working alone, Israeli agent Nat Dickstein concocts an ingenious scenario for the biggest, and quietest, hijacking in history. Against him are the Russian KGB, Egyptian Intelligence and the Arab extremist Fedayeen. With him is a half-English, half-Arab young woman of uncertain allegiance, who discovers Dickstein`s...
ISBN: 978-0-330-35228-4
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Jack Reacher is not pleased when Costello, a private detective, comes nosing around asking questions. Determined to keep out of trouble, he conceals his identity. But when Costello is found dead Reacher has two questions: who was Costello`s employer, and why is she determined to find him.
ISBN: 978-0-553-81185-8
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Un menestrel arrive a la cour du roi Arthur et se met a raconter l’histoire de Tristan, le chevalier qui a tue le dragon qui terrorisait l’Irlande. Grace a cet acte courageux, le roi Marc de Cornouailles peut epouser la princesse Iseut, fille du roi d’Irlande. Pendant le voyage qui les emmene en Cornouailles, Tristan et Iseut boivent par erreur un philtre d’amour destine au roi Marc et a sa jeune epouse… Ils tombent immediatement amoureux l’un de l’autre. Mais leur amour est impossible…
ISBN: 978885300-899-2
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
« Tristia dont le titre est emprunte a Ovide est un retour a la culture et a la terre ou Mandelstam situe les sources de la poesie : Homere, Ovide, Catulle, et la Crimee, les contrees de la mer Noire qui s`etendent jusqu`aux monts du Caucase, et qui, pour le poete, sont inseparables du paysage historique, culturel et geographique de la Mediterranee. Ici convergent la pensee juive, grecque et chretienne. C`est aussi, avec les iles Fortunees, le pays fabuleux de l`Age d`or. Le poete vient y chercher le mot vivant dans sa purete originelle. Cette quete du mot retrouve, du mot neuf, est le motif central de plusieurs poemes de Tristia ou il apparait associe a d`autres themes, dans un poeme d`amour comme Tristia, ou dans l`admirable poeme La...
Die beruhmte Geschichte von Tristan und Isolde in der Zeit von Konig Artus und seiner Tafelrunde. Tristan und Isolde trinken aus Versehen einen Zaubertrank. Das Schicksal nimmt seinen
ISBN: 978885300-870-1
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman took fiction into unknown realms, combining an entirely new concept in form with an idiosyncratic type of sentimental comedy. The publication of the first two of nine volumes brought the clergyman, Laurence Sterne, instant celebrity, but the novel`s exuberant mixture of bawdry and virtuous feeling also provided considerable moral outrage, which the author relished. An amorphous mass of inconsequential incidents, musings, reminiscences and countless hilarious digressions into side issues of the vaguest tangential relevance, make up this engaging anti-novel which has no beginning, middle or end, and is dominated by the author`s vibrant personality which commands the reader`s active...
ISBN: 1-85326-291-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001
1940. American Stephen Metcalfe is a minor asset in the US`s secret intelligence forces in Europe. Through a wild twist of fate, he must instigate a bold plan that may be the only hope for what remains of the free world. Now he must travel to wartime Moscow to find, and possibly betray, a former 1991. The Communist empire is on the verge of oblivion, and a coup is being planned by a powerful new cabal. Stephen Metcalfe, now a retired ambassador, must return to Moscow and finally reveal a secret that has haunted him since the fall of a secret that might just avert a global cataclysm.
ISBN: 978-1-4091-1777-3
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Günter de Bruyn stellt die Geschichte von Tristan und Isolde, dem klassischen Liebespaar der mittelhochdeutschen Literatur, in einer poetischen Nacherzählung vor. Es ist die Geschichte von Tristan, der für König Marke nach Irland fährt und zahlreiche Abenteuer und Kämpfe zu bestehen hat, und von Isolde, um die er für König Marke werben muß und die Tristan liebt und von ihm wiedcrgelicbt wird, obwohl sie König Markes Frau wird. Tristan und Isolde, von Gottfried von Straßburg im 13. Jahrhundert besungen, von Richard Wagner zu Opernhelden gekürt, waren das erste Paar in der deutschen Literaturgeschichte, das im Namen einer höheren Moral gegen die Gesetze der höfischen...
